Henry G. Brinton is senior pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia, and a contributor to the preaching journal Homiletics. He is the author of the book Balancing Acts: Obligation, Liberation, and Contemporary Christian Conflicts and has written on religious topics for USA Today and The Washington Post.
Senior Editor of Homiletics magazine. Minister of Preaching and an ordained pastor with the United Church of Christ, Merrill studied at Iliff School of Theology in Denver where he received a degree in Historical Theology. His doctoral studies at Princeton Theological Seminary were in the History of Christianity, with an emphasis in twelfth-century crusade preaching. He is the author of numerous articles in the religious press, and has published in the academic world in journals such as the Westminster Theological Journal and The Patristica and Byzantine Review. He wrote Community: You Will Be My Witnesses (Abingdon Press), Learning to Fall: A Guide for the Spiritually Clums (Chalice Press), and Lectionary Tales for the
Barbara Dick, formerly an editor for Abingdon Press, is now working freelance from Wisconsin. Her editing projects include Newscope, The Wesley Study Bible, The Abingdon Worship Annual, The Abingdon Preaching Annual, Black Church Studies, The United Methodist Music and Worship Planner, and Prepare!, all from Abingdon Press, and Joy to the World from the Women’s Division of The United Methodist Church. She is coauthor with her husband Dan R. Dick of Equipped for Every Good Work: Building a Gifts Based Church. Barbara has written for the Upper Room Disciplines and recently completed work on new and revised United Methodist brochures on Communion, Baptism, Membership Vows, Grace, and others for Abingdon Press.
